So happy to announce that after over a year's work on the application, I have been awarded a grant by the University of Oxford's John Fell Fund to support 'Designing for Historical Empathy', the first...

Videogame genres have long served as the kindling on which game studies discourse fires rage. As long as there have been discussions around the categorisation of videogames, the specificities that cha...

ALT: Look Outside The Shadow

Alt: A campfire scene from Sea Of Stars (2023), a pixel-art JRPG inspired by classics like Chrono Trigger. The GIF depicts the game's three protagonists, Garl, Valere, and Zake all relaxing in their own distinct ways. Zake is doing pushups, Valere is meditating, Garl is eating.

The company is not happy to have its "layoff embargo" broken.

ALT: The Simpsons: We've Tried Nothing

Electronic Enlightenment, University of Oxford. Digitizing letters from the 17th–19th centuries, reconnecting the first global social networks.

This Is Fine: Maximum Cope is exactly what it sounds like.

A playlist collecting each recording from the Videogame Preservation: Practices and Approaches online symposium, on the 12th March 2026. For the full program...

Some players of the grand strategy game are discovering a lot to like about turn-of-the-century communism.

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Games That Haunt Us: Gothic Game Space as a Living Nightmare is an examination of how the Gothic appears in game space to interrogate an area of substantial imp…